Hopper vs Tank - What's the difference?
hopper | tank |
A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
One who hops.
The immature form of a locust.
The larva of a cheese fly.
An artificial fishing lure.
A toilet.
* 2010 , Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life (page 250)
An escapement lever in a piano; a grasshopper.
A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
(obsolete) The game of hopscotch.
A closed container for liquids or gases.
An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
The amount held by a container; a tankful.
An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
(Australian and Indian English) A reservoir or dam.
A large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
(slang) A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
(gaming, video games, online games) In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.
To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
(video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
To put fuel into a tank
To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
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A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
As a proper noun hopper
is .As a verb tank is
.hopper
English
Noun
(en noun)- To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
- The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* leaf-hopper * hip-hopper * in the hopper * rockhopper * space hopper * table-hopperExternal links
(wikipedia "hopper") ----tank
English
(wikipedia tank)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . In the sense of armoured vehicle, to disguise their nature, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water (1915).Noun
(en noun)- I burned three tanks of gas on the drive to New York.
Synonyms
* (military fighting vehicle) battle tank, combat tank, armour (mass noun), tango (Canadian military slang)Derived terms
* antitank * battle tank * cavalry tank * combat tank * cruiser tank * empty the tank * fast tank * fish tank * flame tank * flamethrower tank * heavy tank * infantry tank * light tank * main battle tank * medium tank * tankbuster * tank destroyer * tank suit * tank top * tankette * tank farm * tankini * think tankHypernyms
* (military fighting vehicle) armoured fighting vehicle, armored fighting vehicle, AFV, armoured combat vehicle, armored combat vehicleHyponyms
* (military fighting vehicle) infantry tank (historical), cavalry tank (historical), fast tank (historical), cruiser tank (historical), tankette (historical), light tank, medium tank, heavy tank, main battle tank, MBT, flame tank, flamethrower tankCoordinate terms
* (military fighting vehicle) armoured car, armoured train, armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, self-propelled gun, tank destroyer, assault gunVerb
(en verb)- Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Simmonds)